Extracted from text ... Demilitarisation of conflict and society is crucial to building sustainable peace
in countries emerging from the
scourge of civil war. As longstanding conflicts
come to an end, a variety of approaches are adopted by international agencies
and national governments aimed at supporting processes that facilitate
this potentially volatile transition from formal peace to social peace. At the
heart of the
exercise is the
necessity of transforming the
instruments of war-
and in particular combatants themselves-from soldiers to citizens as well as
ridding the
wider society of armaments. Thus the
process of demilitarisation
involves not only a political commitment from ..